Pa. Lawmaker Wants to Spend Impact Fee Money on Fracking Health Study

February 8, 2013 | 4:20 PM

Dr. Amy Pare says she has treated workers and residents who think gas drilling has made them sick. She supports funding for a statewide Marcellus Shale health impact study.

Suburban Philadelphia Republican State Sen. Stewart Greenleaf is working on a bill that would allocate $2 million from the state’s impact fee fund to study the public health impacts of Marcellus Shale drilling.

Greenleaf has circulated a memo about the bill, which would amend Act 13, the state’s new drilling law. Despite attempts by the state’s public health community, Act 13 passed without funds for a health registry. A similar bill sponsored by Sen. John Yudichak, a Democrat from Luzerne County, failed to gain any traction in the last legislative session.

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